Hola Arepa food truck opening Eat Street restaurant

Dan Oskey is leaving the Strip Club in St. Paul for the new Hola Arepa along Eat Street in Minneapolis. (Pioneer Press: Ginger Pinson)

Dan Oskey, longtime bartender at St. Paul's Strip Club Meat and Fish, is leaving to join Hola Arepa, yet another food truck opening a stand-alone restaurant, this one on Eat Street in Minneapolis.

Hola Arepa's food truck serves Venezuelan arepas, which consist of a variety of tasty fillings encased in a cornbread cake sliced open like a pita pocket. The restaurant will serve a more expanded menu and will add a full bar. It should be open within a month, Oskey said.

Oskey makes a mean cocktail and is also co-owner of Easy and Oskey, which sells kits to help home bartenders make their own bitters.

The new Hola Arepa restaurant will be on Nicollet Avenue, so we'll still be able to belly up and chat with Oskey about movies, TV and gardening, but we'll have to cross the river to do it.